The conflict between East and West predates America and Islam, says a book full of cool maps
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Prosperity preachers like Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen are only the latest incarnations of a long lineage of American hucksters.
Coloring books for adults are an intriguing new hobby, breaking into the mainstream like the young-adult fiction boom before them.
Four billion years ago, the Universe was a different place. What would we have seen? “In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night […]
Are too many taking liberties with the logic of our freedoms? A smart reassessment of Henry David Thoreau’s work spotlights key related issues.
Researchers experiment with gene deletion.
Rubens’ Prometheus literally flips Michelangelo’s Christ on his head to look at art and gods in a whole new way.
I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile.
Vince Lombardi famously once said, “Winners never quit. Quitters never win.” But a new study finds otherwise.
Last year almost 80 billion videos were watched on Pornhub, the world’s largest repository of free online porn. No wonder Playboy has to rethink its revenue stream.
Before NASA’s Dawn spacecraft found white weirdness on Ceres, it had a close encounter with the second largest asteroid: Vesta. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since […]
Penn State and Yale University astronomers, unable to explain strange data patterns they’re observing from a star, have come to the conclusion that there may be an “alien superstructure” orbiting it.
Where is the next catastrophe likely to take place and what might the fallout be?
If all the worlds formed together, they have the ingredients for life, too. Maybe it isn’t just Earth who got lucky. “If I had to describe myself to an alien […]
Why the momentum for a sassy Manhattan billionaire and the upsurge in popularity for a no-nonsense Brooklynite?
Vancouverites are in full revolt over outrageous housing costs and the foreign investors behind North America’s biggest bubble.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.
Exclusion and a lack of diversity are the breeding grounds for harassment. “There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in […]
There are apparently some high-stakes moral implications to taking selfies.
It’s a condition meant to protect us, but when it goes wrong, it makes some experience a waking nightmare.
People go a little nuts when entire cities lose electrical power, and blackout events are getting more frequent, not less.
The ill-mannered use of mobile phones in public is infuriating. Here’s what you can do about it.
The evidence is there, and sometimes a set of pictures can show you better than words could ever tell. “If I want water, I’ll have to make it from scratch. […]
Do these facial composites merely represent national averages, or are they national “ideals”?
It’s all too common to hear about the violent crimes of NFL players. But that’s not the full story. “I can look in their eyes and see it. That’s the […]
Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized.
This could really revolutionize higher education.